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Re: PATCH: Speed up libgcj build


On Oct 13, 2000, Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com> wrote:

Bryce> 2. Can someone remind me why the .java->.class stage was
Bryce> changed to run gcj separately for every file?

> To avoid line length limitations.  This change confused me, though --
> don't we run into the same limitations creating the .so?

We might, but we still don't.  Probably because the object filenames
don't start with $(srcdir).  We'll eventually get to that point, and
then, there's not much that can be done without some significant
reworking :-(

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